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Debra Schwartzfarb

Debra Schwartzfarb is a vice president and practice at Kirk Palmer and Associates, executive search firm with a focus on senior level roles in retail, DTC and wholesale. Reach Debra at sebra@kirkpalmer.com.
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What Women Want: How to Attract, Retain and Advance Female Leadership Talent

Corporate America is looking for women. In retail and fashion, two industries powered by female spending, businesses are actively seeking female leaders to narrow gender gaps on corporate boards, in C-suites and on senior management teams. In executive search, we’ve continued to see this trend grow as clients increasingly cite that they would “love to...

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The Age of Talent: How to Set Aside Performance Bias and Harness the Power of Generational Diversity

As e-commerce enters its second decade of maturity, a new generation of executives is entering the C-suite. Some of these professionals are self-made, having launched successful companies that have made them highly visible 20-and-30-something CEOs. Others, prized for their digital fluency and new ways of thinking, are rising through the ranks in the fast track...